skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For an actual Thunderbolt display (contrasted to the DisplayPort alternate mode), the sole DisplayPort controller shouldn't be a limitation, as render offscreen + DMA to the device would work just fine in that case.

No, that's not how this is implemented. The difference between a Thunderbolt display and a DP-alt-mode display is that the TB one decodes the additional DP-in-TB layer to get at the DisplayPort data. And since it does TB to do that, it can (but doesn't have to) implement PCIe & USB functions too.

TB displays do not implement a PCIe endpoint for the actual display contents and don't have any DMA capability. The DisplayPort stream is wrapped inside TB packets (with some empty bits being left out, e.g. H/Vblank); the Display (or TB dock/hub) just decodes the packets back into DisplayPort.

... which means the host needs to be able to encode a particular number of DP streams into the TB connection, and depending on the silicon and its connections this may only be 1 stream. The only way around that would be with DisplayPort MST support, since that's only one GFX->TB stream for DP :)

Thunderbolt essentially transports 3 kinds of packets over its connection:

- TB native packets (bit of a FireWire followup, kinda)
- PCIe packets
- DisplayPort packets
You may not, but plenty of others do, some do it without realising themselves doing it.

BTW, I meant to say two different major reasons, should have used bullet points.

The two reasons may overlap for some, or many.
> 00:43:15 Every object should be a virtual server and have a URL and an IP.

I see. Going overboard with microservices has a long pedigree.
Well those systems that do not have alternative funding goals also end up being very regressive, if my Power or Nat. Gas bill increased by 30% well I will complain online, and be frustrated every-time I have to pay it, but I will not have to choose between paying the utility or buying food. Nor will it modify my consumption of it, it just means more expenses. I use the amount of energy I need today, no more, no less. Charging me more for it will not change my consumption.

That can not be said for others. Carbon Tax's on power generation and home heating have the nasty impact of being very regressive impacting the poorest among us disproportionately

We need to improve Alt. Energy to make it cost competitive with Fossil Fuels, and not by artificially raising the prices on Fossil fuels which harms the poor.

Carbon Tax systems also end up not actually reducing carbon, but instead allow "trading" of carbon heavily producers with monopoly lock in can simply gouge their customers with higher prices to pay for "offsets", it is akin to wealth redistribution but rather with carbon
iPhone 12 can interfere with pacemakers, Apple confirms
yes i think if we have to write very customised version of svg rendering then it would be like writing another graphics system, why bother with svg then?

on second thaught if xml is used for encoding and declaration of a perticular drawing, then what is used to render actual svg? is this again going on OS's graphical system?
Taiwan hasn’t been integrated with mainland China since the Qing Dynasty. It goes further than unfinished business in 1949. Korea and Vietnam also used to be integrated with ‘China’. The Taiwanese have had plenty of time to forge their own independent culture. Democracy on the mainland or not, the people of Taiwan would benefit very little from a union with a country that has half the per capita GDP that they have.
This is a similar problem to the security line being an attractive terrorist target.
You'd still be looking at R for that I think.

As number of immune people goes up, R goes down, and you can start reducing measures. (until R goes to near-0, at which point you're done) .

At least, that's the theory.
6-digit icq guy here :)
Microsoft mocks Apple’s doomed Touch Bar in new Surface ad
The End of ETL as We Know It
When is it scheduled to arrive?
If you're a dev who doesn't value your time it's free!

Otherwise it costs you many hours of market research to see if your product is viable. Many hours of design and testing to determine if your product is useful/liked by customers.

In comparison, the running costs are orders of magnitude less than what you will waste building and launching the product.
I mostly struggle, when I have a specific restaurant open, some restaurants have an own category for that (vegan/vegetarian) and some add it as a text to the meal description. For some you have to choose e.g. a vegetarian patty to make a burger vegetarian - I'm confused with this mostly.
A feature which i would really like is a list of all the meals which I can order nearby restaurant independent and filter them e.g. by vegetarian/vegan ones to discover new restaurants.
>> “Mac gave me this little bar, but why can’t they just give me a whole touchscreen?” asks a boy comparing the two laptops.

Absolutely fair
Huh? Weird, I have written a blog website in what Racket offers, following the documentation you criticize in another comment and got it working. Even the not so easy to understand continuation based side of it came to me after reading it thoroughly. It is quite simple to setup your REST routes and all that.

If you are interested, you may refer to: https://github.com/ZelphirKaltstahl/racket-markdown-blog/tre...

I did never bring it online, as I never rented a server for it, but it definitely functions and I had some local posts, which I did not include in the repository.

Did you never have a software without documentation? I think that would be way worse than having a sort of OK documentation of a bare bones web framework, that is actually understandable, with careful reading.

The Racket mailing list is also very helpful and people there are helpful in my experience. Show them you tried and your attempt at things and they'll probably help you out. My only pain with it is, that they are on Google groups.
Thanks so much. Missed that one and loved it instantly.
Everything's freezing again all the glaciers are growing again, climate change models predict next 50 years are going to be some of the coldest in a very long time..... threat?
This is interesting. Could this be adapted to store 2D data, like how a quadtree is a 2D range tree? (If you link me to a paper / pseudocode for that, I could implement it.) I imagine it would be useful in GIS, gaming, etc.
The UX might be good. But their business would not work if they stopped using young foreigners on tourist visas. Like Uber their business model works due to taking local laws lightly.
Firefox Relay
This is where a state level approach might be more effective (though I don't think renting them housing is the way) because cities are focussed on their own local factors and don't have the authority and perhaps not the perspective needed to see & act on the bigger picture.
Ask HN: Hacker News Mobile App
Would anyone be interested in a HN mobile app that kind of operates like Reddit?
France’s Pasteur Inst abandoning its principal Covid-19 vaccine project
Wow. That's great. Thanks for setting this straight.

Seems OCaml/Mirage is the pretty far ahead in typed web dev using a unikernel.
I really missed ICQ when it started to die down with introduction of other messengers, which took over. I think mostly Skype was responsible, at least in my circles due to free audio calls... In any case, I still have my 6 digit UIN which works, despite I was told year or two ago it was deleted due to inactivity.
Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies
The NASASpaceflight channel (not NASA related actually, just annoyingly scammy name) covering the same event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPRfJxz-ECE
I was under the impression that had more to do with this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSeries_dumping_petition_by_Bo... - basically Boeing complained that Bombardier was selling the CSeries at dumping prices, the US International Trade Commission agreed and threatened additional duties on the imported planes, so Bombardier partnered up with Airbus to be able to (partly) build the planes in the USA and thus avoid paying the additional tariffs.
There are many, many people who misuse terms every day.

For an example similar to "Open Source", people misuse "Public Domain". It's not that the legal community is going to change the actual definition to accommodate colloquial use...
> If you decide to live in Asia, expect the default, it's not actually racist; it's normal.

I find that for a lot of folks raised in the West, the existence of this norm is a very rude wake-up call. But to your point, that doesn't stop it from being a norm in the first place in Asia. And it doesn't mean that it's necessarily "on the way out" either.
Ogham to send email/SMS at ease
Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce the release of Ogham v3.0.0 (https://groupe-sii.github.io/ogham/v3.0.0/).

The aim of Ogham is to ease the work of developers that need to send messages (such as Email or Sms) in their application. The differences with other libraries are:
- Ogham has only a single and simple API for sending any kind of messages. With the same code, you can send an Email through SMTP in development and tests but send the same Email through SendGrid (HTTP API) in production. Only the externalized configuration is changed.
- Ogham supports template engines for writing message content so developer doesn't have to handle template engine integration. It adapts itself to the presence or not of template engine(s). It also handles technical concerns that are specific to the sent message such as inlining CSS styles and images in the email. The developer doesn't have to know the RFC and the technical concerns anymore. He just writes his HTML email like he does in a browser and everything is magically handled by Ogham.
- Ogham provides testing utilities that the developer can use to test his code (for example, check the presence of an account creation confirmation code in the sent email).
- Ogham integrates with existing frameworks (like Spring Boot, more are coming).

I share this project here to get your feedback. I am also looking for contributors because I have many ideas for the future of this project like supporting RCS messages and make Ogham available on several platforms (JVM, NodeJS, Android, iOS, ...). Any contribution is welcome !

The full release notes: https://groupe-sii.github.io/ogham/v3.0.0/release-notes.html

Thank you in advance for your feedback.

NOTE: I am also looking for a job
That's an interesting idea in principle, but IME it wouldn't be as helpful as you might think initially.

This is because airline choice isn't much of a market. I live in a major US city (Houston), with excellent air service available in two airports. However, as with nearly all such cities, we are VERY VERY VERY well served by the carriers that "hub" here (Southwest and United). Choosing them usually means a direct flight, and more options for departure times, and probably lower fares.

There are situations where choosing something else is viable, but usually only if you're picking an airline that hubs in the city you're going to -- for example, choosing Delta to fly to Atlanta, or American to fly to Dallas.

The tl;dr is that avoiding the MAX from here would be hard without creating a materially worse experience. (Of course, crashing is an even WORSE experience, so...)
Show HN: Trophi.com – A forum the represents both sides of an argument
I think they're only as good as their autocrats, and not just in terms of good intentions. Singapore fared better than others, but it wasn't entirely centralized either.

The cogs in our governance (everyone else) are pretty rusty, though.
As an Army Reservist who has deployed 5 times I have had to make the mental switch, though this is more like extreme switching on/off your entire life. Here is my limited coping strategy as it relates only to minor task delegation:

* Keep good notes. Be better prepared to jump back into a different task by knowing exactly where you left off, problem state, and what the next step is.

* Anticipate the switch and plan your day/time to accommodate change. The switch to a different task is the easy part. It is building the necessary focus a given task requires that is hard. Know that and plan accordingly so that stress and interference are lower.

* when it comes to automating this stress away embrace the stress state directly and make notes about it. Use those notes to identify repeated problems and delays. Solve not for the stress but for the repetition.

* I cannot provide guidance for dealing with the emotion or mental stress directly as my situation is a bit more extreme.
Google workers to form global union alliance
I remember the criticism of flight training in Asian airlines occasionally verging on racism, but the basic criticism is valid: Asian airlines are faced with market pressures that do not allow them to train pilots adequately, and many don't know how to fly an airplane apart from a checklist; their understanding of piloting is in marginal cases frighteningly superficial.
This is but an error in interpretation. An object that can contradict itself is not self-defeating - it is self-affirming!

I do not exist.
'Even above 275L, it says you need a license - it doesn't say it's illegal.'

Its commonly said 'it illegal to possess plutonium', but obviously someone does operate nuclear powerplants, and thise are people with the right licence. Same applies to drugs, explosices, etc.

The question is - are requirements of the lisence realistic for you to meet as an average homeowner?
Government and engineering alike usually apply the precautionary principle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle

Which says we need to use grave caution if we make changes with uncertain long-term effect.
Apple Warns on Danger of iPhone 12 Handset to Some Users
Because it's made up of a word for meter and another more vulgar word for penis I guess
I am switching over the local stores as much as I can. Amazon took a turn for the much worse 5 years ago and it continues going down this spiral every year.

Few highlights:

- fake item inventory: 50% chance of getting what you ordered vs some fake knockoff

- delivery hell: stolen items (i have personally watched a delivery driver steal my package), delivered items that never arrived (probably falls into the previous category but i have no proof), failed delivery for addresses that worked for 5+ years before

- item arriving from different country that I made the purchase, this is funny in Europe, UK has left the EU on 1st of January so there is import customs to pay on items. I order and item from Germany and Amazon send me from the UK because it is 1 cent cheaper for them. I have to pay the same amount of customs + tax that the amount of the purchase. After some back and fort they reimburse.

So if there is a startup that allows me to order from a local store, I could not care less how much more expensive it is than on Amazon, I am going for it. I hope they succeed.
Riding a motorcycle is a tough one for car drivers, and not just because of the issue you mention: bikes can accelerate and brake much more rapidly due to their lower mass, and inattentive drivers can easily be caught by that. Them appearing where it shouldn't be possible for a car to show up also amplifies the issue (you don't need to look over your shoulders in a single lane street, but bikes easily show up there).

To be honest, I'd trust software even less if I was a bike rider riding in a European (or Chinese, Phillipine...) city, but that's just me :)
To give some context to your comment, Lufthansa is currently losing €1 million every two hours.

https://simpleflying.com/lufthansa-costs-500-000-per-hour/
This article helped me feel less out of the loop with what goes on on /r/wallstreetbets, but I would say it fell short of explaining how the market was "solved", or even proving that claim. I understand the bottom line says focusing on large companies can yield bigger profits than penny stocks, but I can't see how that is a "solution". The evidence does not seem comprehensive. Showing that Palantir was correctly analyzed early does not convince me there is a winning strategy. The same is true for screenshots of account balances.

Defining "success" by net gains over a reasonably long time, I think it is impossible to prove whether a fluid collective of forum posters have a "successful" strategy.
Context switching is an overhead that seems easier to live with than fight. Try less context switches in a day, rather than optimising the time between switching.

Taking on too many concurrent projects inevitably leads to burn out...
I guess Ed Pierson had no stock options left to convert. Not to dispute his integrity, on the contrary, it is still a hard call on him being a whistle blower.
Likely due to the hyperbole of the "scarlet letter" metaphor. I've also noticed that people often downvote posts where the main thesis is "the consensus arrived at by the world's epidemiologist community is wrong and here's a few lines of my math that shows why..."
Is there any analysis regarding how the tiny legs are meant to work? By the look of it, the smallest percentage residual velocity or vertical rotation is going to crunch whichever hits first. The Falcon 9 legs are huge and clearly very strong. The SNx legs just seem ... incongruous? Or are they still in int the 'zero volicity splash-down for modelling' stage?

(Edit: Not to mention how any of this is meant to work on Mars.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike#Biography
I fail to see how your comment addresses the “conservatives hate homeless” statement.

Plus, Utah is probably doing the best out of all the states and they are...conservative.
“The Cadence” infographic – a framework for SaaS growth
I am trying to stick to facts and to refrain from pushing an agenda here.

Taiwan was seized from China in 1895, and given back in 1945. It has remained 'China' ever since, just not part of the PRC. The people are ethnic Chinese and in fact quite a few people fled the communist forces on the mainland by moving to Taiwan, including the government itself. One example being the founder of TSMC. Another example, Foxconn's founder was born in Taiwan right after his parents fled from the mainland.

I find the comparison with Korea and Vietnam factually incorrect and rather disingenuous, irrespective of what the people of Taiwan might think of reunification.
Tesla partners with Samsung on new 5nm chip for full self-driving, report says
> We can be diverse, yet share overarching ideals - such as living together peacefully and in solidarity.

We can, but increasingly I see people arguing that we should forgoe those and determine our actions in society based on our own individual interest and market mechanisms.
There are "others"?
The tariffs really struck me as contradictory to their intent. They said the tariffs would bring factory jobs back to America, but they seemed specifically designed to make most manufacturing more expensive.

Most finished products weren't taxed but raw materials were. So if someone wanted to setup a TV factory it would cost more to import the necessary parts.
What cleaning company charges, then there is lots taxes and tax-like payments and cleaner gets probably that 10€/hr.
B..but they are "partners" /s
The dives were recoverable up until they weren't.
As a second data point, this describes almost the exact need addressed and approach we've taken to roadmaps when we've needed to produce them. We've actually gone a while now without producing one.

What I'd like us to substitute it with is a list of investment priorities over the course of the next year, a rough idea of how much investment each priority will receive relative to the others, and some indicative projects that investing in each of these priorities might result in. Again, all this with more certainly as the timeframe pulls back toward the present day.
Well yeah, electric vehicles are costlier than ICEs, of course the shift isn't going to be market driven. It should be a given that all the changes needed to fight climate change will only happen with thumbs on scales.
Group testing: how do you test 1k people with less than 100 tests?
> Unless Signal brings social features that makes these people experience FOMO of broadcasting their lives on one more network

That's ultimately what it boils down to. Making an alternative messenger that people will use is one problem, but making one that people will use *instead* of WhatsApp is an entirely different beast. The former can be solved with new (non-privacy related) features, but that's not gonna be enough to overcome the network effect.

The really important question here is whether people really don't value their privacy that much or if they just don't know any better. If people really don't care, then there is no problem to be solved. If it's an uninformed decision, then this is not a technological problem but a societal one that can be solved with awareness campaigns for example.
Come on man! Believe in the lockbox!

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-mar-08-la-fi-hi...
They are both just data formats. HTML, derived from XML, is a data format that can be read by the browser to display information to users; JSON is data format that can be read and written by almost every programming language, including JavaScript running on a server or in a the browser.

HTML is just as capable of storing data, for example microformats. In practice though, it is easier to use HTML to describe the contents of a web page for a user and JSON to exchange data between programs.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/microforma...
But that doesn't fit with this example, the minority here is definitely ppl who switch to signal or want to use Signal as their main communication app.

Talebs arguments are more fitting in instances in which the cost of providing a different solution for a minority is too high and the cost (for some central provider) of just complying with minority demands for everyone is lower. Doesn't apply here at all.
Skype for Business... -> Lync ... -> Office Communicator

Say what you want about Microsoft, but they are the (Forefront?) experts at re-re-re-branding.

-- Sent from my MS Passport.NET account.
They haven't been dead silent; last update was on Dec 15th saying they had been syncing with Companies House and the submission was in hand. I don't particularly want to name them though given I genuinely don't know at this point whether the bug is with Companies House or the accountants, and given the drama this has raised, I have no desire for a lynch mob to descend on them if they haven't done anything wrong.
They only need to win over the customers. There is a growing crowd on HN who refuse to buy from Amazon. I spread the love in the community (family, friends, etc.) and sooner or later Amazon is going to feel the lost of trust. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but if the unhappy customers reach a critical mess it will be fast.

“It can take years to create trust and only a day to lose it.”
don't they use Tumblr as the blog-engine?
You should consider Chesterton's fence before either destroying something, or allowing it to be destroyed.

Chesterton's fence is the idea that you should understand a thing thoroughly, including its present function and what might change if it disappeared, before removing it. The hypothetical example being a fence in the middle of nowhere - seemingly useless, but you should really make sure before pulling it up as it may be serving a vital function to somebody else (or the system at large).

The point being, we're stumbling into an scenario where we've killed off the majority of animals in a major ecological category, which is likely to destabilise the environment in both known and unknown ways. If we value the environment's self-sustaining capabilities, this should be greatly concerning.
We are right in the middle of a mass extinction event and continue to mess with systems we don't fully understand. How long do you think we can go on like this until it affects rich people in developed nations?
Air Device Light: The comfort of a full-face mask protection
i think its just temporary.